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IF THE final decision by the Supreme Court or Judge Snead is also favorable to the powerlines, Vepco will still have to obtain a use permit from the Fauquier Board of Zoning Appeals.

William Embrey — chairman of the Fauquier Planning Commission, from Remington, said, “I’m disappointed. This will take hundreds of acres of Fauquier land, and I’m not quite sure, but I think we did some research to show that this will cross and recross roads in southern Fauquier 20 to 30 times.”

Embrey said he didn’t know whether Fauquier County would want to appeal the case. “I’d prefer to, /but we haven’t put as much money in this as we should have. This opposition to the powerlines hasn’t had 100 per cent support in Fauquier. The original powerline requests were denied by the Supervisors and the Planning Commission, but in the fight against Vepco, others have carried our end of the load, Embrey said. “People in southern Fauquier are more affected by this, but there’s no big money down here to help fight it. I’d like to think we could appeal it, but I don’t want to recommend appeal if we won’t be putting up much

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